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It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on
the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google
AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an
effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.
.................
Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further
participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The
earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected
advertisers.

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I think I'm the most honest person alive... I never encouraged ANY visitor to click my ads, I never did fraud.

How can this be ?

This happend right when my payment was pending (but not yet sent). It was supposed to arrive today or tommorow I think.

I just can't believe it.. I'm stunned.. Each day I fight this all over the web, educationg people, and now my account gets disabled.. For invalid clicks..

I would suggest writing to Google and explaining the issue you had with the stolen content. Make sure to include the URL of the blog containing the stolen content, along with the URL of the "Stolen Content" thread you created.

Posts like this make me shudder, especially from an established DP member.

This what I would do :
- grab all your server logs immediately and go through them in great detail. Search for things like frequent loads of the same page by the same ip. (Does pressing the back button generate a pageload ?)
- Report your findings in a polite email to google. Let them know about your thread where you exposed the person stealing your content and everything else that might be suspect.

Does your internet connection have a fixed IP ? I am just thinking that if you use dialup for instance you have a different IP on each connect. When you check your stats google obviously stores your IP. Say another person on your ISP got the IP you previously had and clicked your ads a couple of times then google might think it was you.

Im shocked too that this would happen to someone whose credabilty is solid.
If possible perhaps you could ask google to either give you access to the adsense for a few moment just to check which stream/channel the fraud is from...

or perhaps ask them to look it up forr you and tell you which site generated the hits... then you could check up access logs and build your case...

Normally, I think people are way too paranoid about click attacks, but I think that considering your recent situation, it is the most logical explanation. For those who don't know what I'm referring to, take a look at this thread:http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=99375

So sad to hear that. I saved myself yesterday when I found my earnings went up crazy. This is what I wrote to google:

I have a third party adsense tracker that tracks IP address of the visitors that click my ads. Today when checking my adsense stats, I found the following IP address (84.45.xxx.xxx) that clicked my ads 28 times which looks like someone trying to "click attack" my adsense account or may be they are natural clicks. The site that displays the google ads is http://www.mysite.com. I have detailed stats for this IP address and if required I can supply those. Please let me know if there is anything for me to worry about.

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I received the following reply today:

Thank you for bringing this information to our attention. We have noted your input and will continue to monitor the situation.

In the future, we may adjust your payment for any days during which invalid clicks occurred in order to protect the integrity of the AdSense program and properly credit advertisers for any invalid activity. However, due to the proprietary nature of our technology we cannot disclose any specific details about these clicks.

We appreciate your understanding in this matter and look forward to your continued participation in the program. If you have any questions, please feel free to respond to this email.

For additional questions, we encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Center (http://www.google.com/adsense_help), our complete resource center for all AdSense topics. If you have additional concerns, please feel free to reply to this email and I'll be happy to help you.

Sincerely,

Leo
The Google AdSense Team

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So all good
I wish you get your account back and next time be in contact with google and use adsense tracker to keep track of everything.